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Gwenfar

@gwenfar.bsky.social
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Plants. Cats. ME/CFS. Paleobotany, dinosaurs & earth sciences. Medieval History. #Disabled #FreePalestine #TransRights #Anarchist They/them Wales. #GardeningWithME #GreenParty #NoAI www.gwenfarsgarden.info Mastodon @GwenfarsGarden@rage.love

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Gwenfar @gwenfar.bsky.social · 2h
Hi, so I've tried the app for 1hr 30m & it's not really for me. For example, "Apparently accessible" and "boggy in places" is unhelpful. I do wonder who thought this place was accessible?! Most places I found were in cities & I need something that is broader. #Accessbility #Disabled
Screenshot of a walk description that is meant to be for a wheel friendly walk" that says "Apparently accessible" and "boggy in places".
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die
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TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it. Her...
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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026
Writers, artists, gamers, creators and lovers of all the above, please sign this petition to make AI companies disclose what their tools have been trained on to make their ghastly generative voices/art/books etc. There’s just over a fortnight to go. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm a big believer in finding moments of joy in the now, and I have a lot to be thankful for. But ME/CFS is such a devastating disorder—not just for us sufferers, but also for our caregivers. And without more funding to find biomarkers, official treatments and a cure, our lives are pretty grim.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I write a 3x weekly newsletter full of fossil stuff and you should check it out if you like dinosaurs.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 13/10/2026
This Christmas they will be Harry Potter themed to promote the new TV show - the profits of which will line JK Rowling's pocket and, with it, her transphobic hate. Sadiq Khan says he supports trans people. But he's letting Oxford Street fund transphobia. Email him directly 👇 goodlaw.social/3440b9
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No it isnt. Stop shitting on mentally ill people. He's just a fascist. Fascism isn't a mental illness
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The head of MI5 has warned extremists with anti-Muslim and anti-immigration views are becoming increasingly likely to carry out terror attacks.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Disabled people don't own their Motability cars. They give up their other benefits to pay to lease them. The cars have vital adaptations for disabled use. They make active life - and employment - possible, for thousands and thousands of people: our fellow-citizens. But Nigel Says Fuck'Em...
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Please join us. Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to sign the petition to protect disabled children’s rights. Have you asked everyone you know to sign, including children? Have you shared it in SEND, school and community groups? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect legal right to support for children with SEND
A petition created by a British citizen or UK resident. You can share this petition if you agree with its message.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Great Maia" really knows how to play with tension. My latest dino media newsletter, fresh for you. 🧪
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I Want My DinoTV: Great Maia
I knew this one was going to make me cry.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is so so wonderful. this is 100% the absolute loveliest vision of gardening, bringing people together & building community through beauty & growing things. I just LOVE this & hope to emulate these folks more & more as I grow older.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There it is. Cold-blooded murder.
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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
2. It shouldn't need restating, but a waiting list doesn’t mean too many people have #ADHD. It means huge numbers who were missed for decades are finally seeking answers. That’s not overdiagnosis. It’s the backlog of a lifetime of under-diagnosis
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Gwenfar @gwenfar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ahh, I didn't know that. Ok, removed boost.
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ShezzaT @shezzat.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
This post is to blame for me re-watching Tom Holland’s Umbrella. (m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ... )
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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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Gwenfar @gwenfar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Never seen before and omg, what a gem. He really got the dance down so well and the comedy is 👍🏻
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Everyone who believes that being bedbound with severe #MECFS is easy should just try a cheap imitation for 4 weeks and do so on half the minimum wage. No leaving bed area. No nookies or gooning. No gaming. No scooby snacks. No TV marathons. If you are fortunate, then some: books, smartphone, laptop.
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BOO-nker SPOOK-room, male porn star @seej500.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can we call this guy a nazi yet?
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Gwenfar @gwenfar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Does the app include wheelchair accessible routes?
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You have to count your blessings 😌
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Mister Alex @awp.christies.org.uk · 09/10/2026
The thing about bad apples, the thing that the "it's just a few bad apples" people always forget, what's really fucking important about having one or two bad apples in your barrel of apples... ...IS THAT THE BADNESS SPREADS FROM APPLE TO APPLE AND YOU HAVE TO THROW OUT THE WHOLE ROTTEN BARREL!
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My #MECFS Scandal explainer has just hit half a million views on YouTube. I remember worrying that 27 minutes was too long and nobody would watch it. I never expected it to get so many. Thank you to everyone who shared it! Here’s the trailer 👇
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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NHS and @ukhsa.bsky.social are still spreading the misinformation that levels are LOW. This may be relatively true compared to prevalence such as 1/30, but roughly 1/175 is high enough that you are likely to encounter covid in many places. Wear #FFP3 Avoid shared air. #ventilate
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dogs when they do something wrong and it’s the monkey puppet doing the side eye

Cats when they do something wrong: and is that Sam Jackson meme where he’s staring angrily at the camera
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Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We have written to the JCVI before about the evidence that vaccination reduces the risk of developing Long Covid. We’ve now written AGAIN following their advice for autumn 2027 2 million #pwlc in the UK. Yet #LongCovid isn’t mentioned in the latest advice. www.longcovidsos.org/post/respons...
longcovidsos.org
Response to the JCVI’s Autumn 2027 COVID-19 Vaccination Advice
On the 9th of October we wrote to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) about their Autumn 2027 COVID-19 Vaccination Advice.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sex Is a Spectrum shares a scientist’s perspective on why a binary view of sex & gender is not only misguided but harmful, & why there are multitudes of ways of being human. Now in #paperback! Read a free preview & save 30% with code PUP30: buff.ly/7uezVk0 @anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes. A resounding refutation of the idea that there’s anything natural about the gender binary."—Publishers Weekly
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Managing this - the effect the furious grief about the loss of your old life, the restriction and social isolation #mecfs has on your MH - is a job in itself in the first few years. Took me about 7 years to get to a non-dangerous-to-myself place with it. There's no help from the #nhs.
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Wisgi Kevin 🇵🇸 @wisgi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last Song composed by Alexis Ffrench and played by me. Modern classical. pianokevin.vids.io/videos/5a9ad...
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Ffrench Last Song VI
Me playing Alexis Ffrench's composition Last Song using my new Vidal keyboard and the Vienna Imperial virtual piano.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lots of people who aren't Palestinian claiming a motion written by Palestiniams will not advance the Palestinian cause.
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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A WOMANS BODY IS NOT YOUR TESTING GROUND FOR LEARNING BOUNDARIES OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
possession subway scene
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 03/10/2026
it's been very noticeable that whatever noises burnham has been making about changing direction, they do not include anything about fixing this horrific situation
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
oh FOR FUCKS SAKE So it's not intended to save the NHS at all. And if you're the parent of a disabled kid, disabled yourself, or the child of a very unwell parent who isn't yet retired 🎊🎺HEYYY!🎉🤸 YOU STILL GET TO SELL YOUR HOME TO PAY FOR CARE. If you ever managed to get one.
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Gwenfar @gwenfar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ab-so-fuckin-lutely
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026
I strongly believe that one of the valid outcomes of a properly functioning system of restorative justice absolutely includes the victim getting to insist that their abuser’s life should be ruined forever.
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Billy, Garry, Orville @billythecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A Comfortable Man!!
Billy the brown tabby cat is asleep on his back on the top shelf in the wardrobe. Only his tail and his back legs can be seen, with his pink and black beans high in the air.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes"
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is part two (for those who missed it first time) on how anti trans movement and their allies in the show gave me no option but to to resign www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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To the End - Gaslighting Part Two | Robin Ince
Where were we? Are yes, we’d just got to here. This was when I would start having people come up to me after gigs and say, who is that perso
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cymruwanderer.bsky.social @cymruwanderer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hypocrisy is the currency of Reform....when it's not roubles willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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𝔏𝔬𝔟𝔬 ⛓️ @wolf-kin.com · 01/10/2026
The trend in paleo/cave art is cool but it is teetering on the line of some traditional Indigenous art yfm? I've seen people discussing tribes/cultures around the art they draw as if those cultures are a thing of the past 😕 I hope artists take time to research the styles they are inspired by
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, Andy Burnham is sitting on a massive majority in Parliament, albeit one won by his predecessor, but which he has complete power to use to his advantage, and yet there appears to be nothing on his list of immediate priorities for action. It's so typically Labour I'm so tired of this shit
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/09/2026
"It is clear that Labour needs the Greens to keep them in check everyday to push them towards the real transformation this country needs." @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the Prime Minister's speech at Labour conference.
HOPE IS NOT JUST A SLOGAN, IT NEEDS TO MEAN REAL CHANGE

ZACK POLANSKI
LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY

"Unlike his predecessor, we have a PM who talks like he gets it. But sadly like his predecessor he isn’t prepared to break from the powerful and wealthy interests that have created an inequality, affordability and a climate crisis.
 
Hope is not just a slogan, it needs to mean real change. The speech today had no wealth taxes, no rent controls, no water nationalisation and a strong hint of more North Sea drilling.
 
It is disappointing that we have a country ready to break from the last 40 years, a Labour government with the majority to do it, and yet what we see are more half measures, reannouncements and tinkering."

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
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Stunt Lover 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @stuntlover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feels like a relevant day to share @monaeltahawy.bsky.social 's clip from 2019 ozzie TV (which I believe was subsequently banned) wherein she asks the evergreen question, "how many rapists must we (as women, not the state) kill until men stop raping us?" Unfortunately, every day is a relevant day.
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Mona Eltahawy backs controversial comments on ABC Q&A program
During an explosive all female panel on the ABC program last week, Egyptian-American writer, Mona Eltahawy, suggested rapists should be killed.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GUYS WE ARE 376 QUID AWAY FROM THE TARGET. IT WILL TAKE LESS THAN ONE IN A THOUSAND OF MY FOLLOWERS TO DONATE A QUID TO GET THERE. Tell you what, If we get to £9900, I'll donate the last 100 quid myself.
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Genocide is a disability justice issue. Infrastructure is a disability justice issue Listen to disabled people
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Museum collections are revealing how the genetic diversity of the moss carder bumblebee has changed over the past century! 🐝 Once widespread across Britain, these bees have declined in number and become increasingly isolated as suitable habitat has been lost.
Photograph of a moss carder bumblebee specimen on a grey background. The bee is orange-brown, showing dark markings, a hairy body, long legs and translucent, veined wings.
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